I recently sat down with Marty Mechtenberg on the Rooted and Reaching podcast to talk about my entrepreneurial journey, from struggling through my first programming class at Bethel to building multiple SaaS businesses while staying rooted in the South Bend area. The Early Days: Learning to Code (the Hard Way)
Something that's been on my mind lately: Why is a customer going to choose my product? There's tens to hundreds or even thousands (looking at you CRM's) of every app for every problem. Why would someone choose mine? Price? I'm a firm
Podcast interview where I share my journey building lasting SaaS businesses, the power of partnerships, and why I'm obsessed with onboarding, risk reduction, and hiring ‘batteries included’ people.
A few weeks back I joined Chad on his Giant Robots podcast to talk Ruby, Rails and a bit of business – including our acquisition of Fireside last year. The episode just went live and I hope you enjoy it. Fun fact: their podcast is actually hosted on Fireside – inception! You
I had a nice chat with Brendan and Ryan on the Rails Business podcast a few weeks ago and now its live! Search for "Rails Business" in your favorite podcast app or you can listen at the following link: John Nunemaker - Rails BusinessIn this episode, Brendan and
I was stoked when I discovered that the Ruby on Rails podcast is hosted on our platform – fireside.fm. So I reached out to Elise for feedback and to volunteer Garrett and I for an episode. We recorded last week and its already live today. Our chat covered taking over
It's out and it's stout. Actually, I don't know if it's stout or not. I just like to rhyme (all the time). My 3 Fav Quotes “What if instead of discounts, we focused on lowering the risk for customers to try podcasting?
For those that haven't subscribed to the fireside blog or the podcast, I figured I'd update here as well. We released episode #3 on Mastering Prioritization in SaaS last week. Give it a listen and subscribe in your favorite podcast app. At some point I'
Episode #1 went out last Thursday. Now here we are on Tuesday and ANOTHER EPISODE FOR YOU. I know right?! Christmas came early this year. On today's episode, we hit on a few topics: 🙋 Customer feedback. 😖 Podcasting pains. 🆕 Future features. 🏆 Recent wins. Just hit play... you know you
We did it! The Fireside crew went through the entire process of setting up a podcast and recording our first episodes. #1 is live wherever you enjoy podcasts (probably). I never would have guessed how tedious it would be to get your first episode out the door. Now I have
Ok folks, this is kind of a weird one. I'm going to put it in the "you won't ever need this, but if you do, you are going to be glad I wrote this up for ya" category. As you may or may not
Last, but not least for this week, I was on Founder Quest. I'm doing my best third wheel impression over there and appreciate that Ben and Josh haven't kicked me off yet. We talked about a lot of things but mostly focused on the fireside acquisition.
I joined Adam and Jerod to share my new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. The conversation was great! This new moneyball approach (dubbed so by Jess) has been swimming around in my head for a few months now. So it's great to talk about it in
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Last week Drew invited me on his podcast. I loved the format (what are you working on, what are your blockers, what have you learned recently) and suspect I'll become a regular listener. The episode summary pretty much sums it up... Ever wondered why a seasoned entrepreneur would
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I've had business partners for every business I've been a part of. Yet, I've never asked myself "Why?". Yesterday someone did. You’ve been fairly prolific over the years, and I was wondering what your thoughts were on taking a business partner?
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First, let's set the scene. It's Saturday, July 20th in South Bend, Indiana. My kids are playing in the driveway (yes they left their toys out) while my wife and I work on some tweaks to our camper. My phone dings. Just kidding. My phone never
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Another week and another podcast wthe great group at Honeybadger. This time we covered writing and I think it turned out great. The first 15 minutes we chatted linters, rubocop, standardrb and copilot. But then we went hard on content. The second you feel inspired get it out on the
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Last week I joined Ben and Josh on Founder Quest to recap RailsConf 2024. As you already know, we had a blast at RailsConf. But even if you read the article, give the podcast episode a listen as we cover more details and several non-RailsConf related items. I also really
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Last week I went to my first RailsConf in forever (2010). That's a decade and a half (almost)! I saw old friends, met more recent online-only friends (in person) and made new friends! Tuesday Tuesday morning I drove to Detroit. 3 hours is a perfect drive. No need
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Everything in money comes down to cushion vs flow. Cushion is cash (or anything easily and quickly convertible to cash). Flow is money in (and out). To feel good/safe/whatever about your money situation, you need have a cushion large enough to cover your flow (for a good time
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🎙 Robbie had me on the Maintainable podcast to chat about maintainable software. The description on the site summarizes it best: Robby has a conversation with John Nunemaker, the Owner at "Box Out Sports" and "Fewer & Faster". They dive into the basics of maintaining software projects,
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🎙 A few weeks ago I joined the Ruby Rogues to talk about feature flags and Flipper Cloud. They released the episode this morning. This is the whole history of how I got into flags, why I wrote flipper, why I wrote cloud, you name it. So if you aren'
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I did a podcast interview with Jeremy and Jess from IndieRails. We talked through a lot of past and a little future – from my first website to plans for Flipper Cloud. I love podcasts like this because you really get to know the hosts. On every one of them, I
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I've been writing Ruby (and Rails) for a long time. My first giggle and snort experience with that combo was 18 years ago. Nearly two decades folks! My Ruby experience is old enough to vote! It's headed off to college next year. According to rubygems, I